Hurray for Martin Durkin!
Ever since Martin Durkin got initially slain by Tony Jones in the ABCs orchestrated debunk of the 2007 BBC 4s magnificent documentary, “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, Ian Plimer, who was the basis of Martins comments about volcanic activity even though he did not appear on screen, has been on the back foot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEsygjXunTs http://rationallythinkingoutloud.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/abc-australias-tony-jones-and-the-great-global-warming-swindle-debate/
In the light of subsequent evidence about the temperature changes of the last 10 years, both George Monbiot and Tony Jones now have a lot of explaining to do. However, today Antony Watts, in his latest blog, Nov.16th, http://www.livescience.com/40451-volcanic-co2-levels-are-staggering.html has put the final nail in the coffin of that infamous critique and so much more of the official scientific background to the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming movement, the CAGW. It may have been that Plimer’s basis for his belief in the importance of volcanic output of CO2 was as much gut feeling about undocumented submarine volcanic activity as it was about published science, but today he has been backed up by a peer reviewed paper in a high level scientific Journal. http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/RIM/RiM75/RIM075_C11.pdf
Volcanic output of CO2 is now seen to be equal to the calculated Anthropogenic output of 6 billion tonnes a year. That now means that Martin Durkin has been vindicated in every aspect of his trail blazing ‘first off the rank’ critique of the whole Global Warming Movement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtevF4B4RtQ Jasper Kirkbys ‘CLOUD’ experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the validation of Proffs Svensmark and Shaviv, on their theories of the sunspot cycle and cosmic rays are now powerful evidence for the rightness of Journalist Martin Durkins assessment of evidence back in 2007. The pressure placed upon Prof. Carl Wunsch to back down on his comments in the documentary about sea level rises and ocean temperature changes did make him panic at the time, and encourage the ABCs attack, but subsequent history has also vindicated him in every way, and journalist George Monbiot now has some curly questions to answer himself. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled-carl-wunsch-responds/ However, I am believing that Martin Durkin, along with all those older scientists who provided him with good scientific evidence will very soon have their day in the sun, and it will not be a good day for the IPCC!
Ken Calvert. 18-11-2013.
